Name Tables	Sub Classes
Capital Ship	Battleship. Battleship - Second Class. Battlecruiser. Battlecruiser - First Class, Armored.
Aircraft Carrying Ship	Aircraft Carriers. Seaplane Carrier. Seaplane Tender.
Cruisers	First Class Cruiser. Second Class Cruiser. Third Class Cruiser. First Class Armored and Protected Cruiser. Armored Ship. Training Cruiser
Fist Class Destroyers	First Class Destroyer. First Class Destroyer (Special type). First Class Destroyer (Type A). First Class Destroyer (Type B). First Class Destroyer (Type C). First Class Destroyer (Type D)
Older Destroyers	.Second Class Destoryer. Third Class Destroyer.
Escorts	Escort Ship (Type A) Escort Ship (Type C) Escort Ship (Type D) Escort Ship Yasoshima Class

The above web pages contains a list of images of Japanese warship names and the equivalent English name. The goal is to aid researchers identifying names of Japanese warships from published material.

• The tables are set up with the first column listing the ship class followed by the names of individual ships.
• Each ship name in English is followed immediately by the Japanese name. If there are more than four ships in a class, the names wrap around to a second line.
• Ship class with multiple ships names are sorted and listed alphabetically.
• Previous names of ships, if they exist are listed immediately below the IJN ship name with the translation. These are in gray and smaller size to denote that they are not the main IJN ship name.
• Ship without names such as planned ships with only number designations are not listed. Submarines which also do not have names are also not listed.
• If a name has been used more than once, the specific occurrence is designated by a number immediately following the name i.e. Chitose (II) = second occurrence

The source of the images of Japanese warship names is the Japanese publication "Japanese Naval Vessels 1860-1945. Fukui Shizuo Collection". To take advantage of the expertise of this tremendous publication, I have also used the same ship classification as this book.